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Show INTER-MOUNTA- BLUE MOUNTAIN DISTRICT. The 3,200 foot Hallidie rope tramway from the Gold Queen mine to the mill having been completed, the mill started its battery of ten stamps late last Manager Ben Hey wood, Tom D. Pitt and several of the directors were at the plant when work was commenced, and are likely to remain on the ground for a few days. week. ARIZONA. Oie carrying 300 ounces silver to the ton is being taken out of the Lucky Baldwin mine near Kingman, inegan and Jones, working under lease. The Music Mountain IN MINING REVIEW. the great wealth of the region exists in the immense deposits of copper ore of high grade, that only await cheaper transportation facilities to bring an another great copper cmp into existence. He states that a large amount of eastern capital is being placed in mines in the Elk City district, Idaho county, where there are large bodies of low grade ore. of Salt Lake, says that there is better times in prospect for Bay Horse than at any time in the past. In the Forest Rose Lannert and Grant found some 800 ounce silver ore inv the tunnel that they were running to tap the vein which cropped out above. Mike Donnelly started a crosscut from the tunnel he has been driving all year, and found that he had been running parallel to the vein. A few inches of work took him into ore that assayed 1100 ounces . L. M. Earl, company, operating mines at Kingman, are developing a good water supply for use in an extensive milling plant to be erected. in silver. F. M. Barnes of Colorado has just completed a trip by boat down the Colorado river from Scanlans NEVADA. Ferry to the Needles, in which he examined the bars for gold. His report is to the effect that all the bars Arizona parties have secured a $10,000 bond on he examined are rich in gold, and that as soon as a some mining property fifteen miles southwest of meshod of working them cheaply and on a large scale Bunkerville owned by John Kiernan and Scott Allen. is evolved the gold production of the Colorado will Manager Charles Wilbur of the Golden Eagle in be astonishing to the world. Central district, has shipped another lot of high grade IDAHO. I bullion shipments of the De Lamar company for the last week in October, amounted to $10,900, A mill is being erected on Rodgers mine in the Seven Devils, owned by citizens of WashingtThe ten-sta- on, D. mp C. Coulter of Spokane is in Gibsonville examithe Hughes Creek placers with the view of ac- Jeese R. ning quiring them. Warrens a large dredger has been put in operation to work the river sands. The mines at the Placer basin have turned out great quantities of gold At this season. managing the Big at De Lamar, has purchased ore sacks and will make the initial shipment this week, The ore is of a very good grade, and the mines are in good shape for extraction. The Mammoth mine near Shoup, Lemhi county, has been sold by Alex. Topence to a company which will erect a twenty-stam- p mill at once. It is said that the machinery for the new plant is now at Red Rock, Montana, and will be teamed in. Mr. Fisk, 1 Mr. Edward Rebstock, formerly of Idaho but now operating big placers in Venezuela, has secured the services of Henry Meegan, who has successfully worked the Snake River placers. Mr. Meegan will have entire change of the Venezuelan properties. The Ramshorn, owned by 0. J. Salisbury of Salt Lake, is said to be the biggest mine in Idaho. It is now employing a force of twenty men on ment work, but the ore bodies now opened up and rcady for extraction are very extensive, and as soon is the prices of silver and lead advance the mine will record a heavy tonnage. Bids have been advertised for by the Biugham Placer Company for the running of a tunnel 1,000 to more feet in length to begin near Nelson cartrighes house and run under Main street, and up the street aing Anderson creek. The tunnel will be 5 feet 10 inches high and 4 feet 3 inches wide. B. C. Jones has made the best bid and will proably get the contract. Gibs nville Miner. William Orr, one of the test experts in the employ fthe American Gold and Silver Extraction company, f Denver, has been making an inspection of the Seven Dvils country, and expi esses his belief that the reRiun will yet be the home of the leading mining eampoi the west. There is considerable quartz min-,n- g being prosecuted with good results, and placers are being worked extensively, but Mr. Orr thinks that 7 seems evident that with the heavy cost of extraction, hauling, milling and general expenses of those days it did not pay a good profit, for further operations ceased and the whole district was abandoned, and has remained so, comparatively speaking, ever since. For the last sixteen years the Whitman has been the property of Mrs. M. L. Jaqua, formerly of Dayton, but now of Carson, who has succeeded, with limited means, in keeping up development and possessory work in hope of good ultimate remuneration. Good natural facilities in the way of water, wood, etc., are near the mine, and by proper assorting and working of the ore, it could be made to pay for the judicious investment of capital. Carson News. PERSONALS. A. N. Butts, who formerly owned the Golden Gate at Mercur, is back in Salt Lake on one of his periodi- cal visits from Angels Camp, California, where he is now operating. James Yeatman, formerly representing the E. P. Allis Co. mining machinery firm, will hereafter be associated with the Davis Iron Wt rks and the Mine A. and Smelter Supply company, Joseph Deiderich, one of the best known mill wrights in Utah and Nevada, will start in a few days a visit to the home of his youth in Europe. He for ore to the Salt Lake market. The mine is said to be in will return here with the opening of spring. condition to extract at least a car load each week. Mr. Ed. Stewart, for the past year superintendent Otto Stallman and Joe Farron of Sail Lake have of the Ajax in Silver City, has resigned his position begun work on the Gray Eagle mines in Cherry for the purpose of preparing a report on the mines of Creek, and will push the development energetically. the Union Mining Company, which are located in The mines are said to be among the best gold and the Cariboo district, Idaho. silver mines in the State. John Devine, the Ibapah merchant and mining man, The mill of the North Mountain company at is in from Deep Creek. He states that the advent of is putcapital and the solution of the water cherry Creek is running regularly on ore with the ting new life into the various districts question of Deep Creek, cyanide process. Recent reports are to the effect that and he anticipates a season of great activity in 1897. the cyanide is saving all of the gold and 70 per cent of the silver, and there is every prospect of success INCORPORATIONS. at to the new head of the being guaranteed company Utah Anaconda Copper Company: Capital which is John Heimrich of the Mercur mine in Utah. C. L. Dignowity $300, 000, in 300,000 shares. The Bay State mine in Newark district, now owned president; T. Champney, vice president ;E. W. Gentry, by Thomas Robinson, but which is likely to pass to secretary and treasurer. The company incorporates Eastern capital, has two ore veins 600 hundred feet on the Hidden Treasurer lode claim and the Twin apart, each of which has been traced 2,000 feet. mill placer claim in Paradise mining district, Cache Their dip, however, will bring them together at a county, Utah. depth of 200 hundred feet below the present tunnel level which is 300 feet below the croppings. The W. G. Sharp has recently returned from Pittsburg, property has been well developed and has on the Pennsylvania, where the Pleasant Valley coal company dumps at the present time about 5,000 tons of milling had shipped a car of the Castle Gate coal to experiore. Its shipping ore averages 100 onnees silver to ment with a new cokeing process patented in Gerthe ton. many. The experiment was a success and we learn Numerous months of mining exploration and resi- that the Pleasant Valley company will replace the old dence over thirty years ago in and about Como and ovens with the patent. This will make the compaPalmyra enables Alf Doten to furnish the following nys coke much better and the demand will of course information relative to the Whitman mine, lode or increase. Eastern Utah Advocate. ledge. In those early days the Whitman was considered ftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftftft one of the most promising if not the best ledges in ft ft ft that section. It is situated about three miles north of ft Como, cropping out boldly above the surface, and showing a width of forty feet or more. The first work was a broad, open cut in the croppings, developing a strong, well defined ledge of white, quartz which gave rich assays, principally in silver, from the dark mineralized streaks permeating the vein matter. Specimens taken from it, tested with aid of borax flux in a blacksmith forge, Drought out many golbules of silver the size of small bird shot. Down the ravine just below, a tunnel was run west through the ledge at a depth of sixty feet or more, beneath the croppings, showing the ledge to be condensed to about thirty feet at that depth, the ore being similar to that at the surface. The tirst practical Como mill, completed in 1864. milling test was at the ' Two hundred tons were hauled over a new road-th- ree miles constructed for the purpose, John B. Winters being superintendent of both mill and mine. 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